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Kimberly, Martha, & Tray

Notes From" The Statue of Liberty as Idea,..."

  • The American and French had a good friendship with each other because America let France use their territory, and they helped out each other in battles and wars.
  • The complete design of the statue took 11 years for France to finish their gift of thanks.
  • The French citizens contributed more than 400,000 francs to the building of Liberty.
  • The United States provided invaluable support to the French, especially during World War II, when the French were on the road to being taken over by the Nazis.
  • From the beginning, the Statue was meant to be a beacon, and a universal symbol, for the spread of freedom and self government everywhere.

Martha's notes
  • The statue's very existence was never assured.
  • For nearly a year the pieces of the statue sat in 210 wooden crates which they had been transported to Bedloe's Island, because there was not enough money for constructing the base of the monument.
  • Twenty one years elapsed between the genesis of the idea for the statue and its completion in New York harbor.
  • The greatest test during the twenty one year probably occurred at sea: the ship carrying the statue across the Atlantic Ocean nearly capsized during a storm.
  • The inauguration of the Statue of Liberty, is known as Liberty Enlightening the World, October 18, 1886.
  • New York City declared the day a public holiday, and tens of thousands of New Yorkers paraded down Broadway.
  • United States president Grover Cleveland officiated at the opening ceremonies at Bedloe's island.
  • Events and expectations during the first hundred years of the statue's existence have continually recast its meaning and symbolism.
  • In a five day period in the summer of 1989a large statue known as the Goddess of Democracy was erected in they center of Beijing the capital city of the people's Republic of China.
  • The statue symbolized the yearning for freedom among ordinary Chinese people; its resemblance to the Statue of Liberty was intentional not accidental.

Kimberly's Notes
  • The delivery of the statue took so long that the statue stayed in pieces in 210 boxes for nearly a year.
- How many pieces of the statue were in certain boxes?
  • Vartan Gregorian had a idolized notation/version of America.
-What made America seem so idolized? Was it because it was too normal or too different?
  • Bartholdi was convinced that if the statue were built in the U.S. in the Old World, it would serve to arouse the love for liberty and free government in the New World.
  • Bartholdi also stated, " I will try to glorify the republic and liberty over there [in America] in the hope that someday I will find it again here in France."


Kimberly's Franco_American Union Web:
K_Clarke_FA_Union.jpg

Martha's 1st and 2nd Webs:
MarthaWeb.jpg
Martha_Web_II.jpg


Introduction for the essay:
Many people believe that the Satue of Liberty was a gift from France. It celebrated France's friendship with the United States. That is not the whole story. it was more for political purposes. The designer of the statue created the Franco-American Union, it's an organization, and the Franco American Union's motive was not only to signify the friendship between America and France, but also to persuade the United States to help in the change of France's government.

Here's the complete essay,(srry i couldnt do it the same way we did it at lehman. i did the best i could)
FA UNion essay....doc